A New Conception of Science

Nicholas Maxwell

The Comprehensibility of the Universe

A New Conception of Science

Nicholas Maxwell

A Clarendon Press Publication

Description

The Comprehensibility of the Universe puts forward a radically new conception of science. Nicholas Maxwell argues that the prevailing view of the relation between scientific theory and evidence is untenable; he calls for a new orthodoxy which sees science as making a hierarchy of assumptions about the comprehensibility of the universe. This new conception has significant implications for both philosophy and science, and promises to heal the rift between the two.